We raced against our deskmate to see who could memorize the text faster, and I lost.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
同桌
desk-mate
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
desk-mate
02
seat-mate
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 同桌 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 同桌 appears in 11 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
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COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 同桌.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 同桌.
Directly before
- 的同桌4
- 和同桌2
Directly after
- 同桌的2
- 同桌总是1
- 同桌经常1
- 同桌把1
- 同桌关系1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 同桌
What does 同桌 mean in Chinese?
同桌 (tóngzhuō) means desk-mate.
How do you pronounce 同桌?
同桌 is pronounced tóngzhuō.
Is 同桌 an HSK word?
同桌 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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